Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 49
And the future Buddha, wanting to cure this talkativeness of his, was constantly seeking for some means of doing so.
Who acts: future Buddha, wanting, seeking · What happens: want, cure, seek, mean, do · To what, where: talkativeness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (future Buddha, wanting, seeking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wanting | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Buddha | amod |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wanting | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanting | punct |
| 6 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 seeking | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cure | mark |
| 8 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wanting | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 talkativeness | det |
| 10 | talkativeness | talkativeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cure | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 his | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 talkativeness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanting | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seeking | aux |
| 15 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 16 seeking | advmod |
| 16 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 means | csubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 some | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 seeking | obl |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 doing | mark |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 means | ccomp |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 doing | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | gerund | the future Buddha | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cure not said to happen | to-infinitive | the future Buddha not said here | Buddha's talkativeness | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer talkativeness=Source | ||||
| 3 | seek | past · progressive | wanting | for some; constantly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for some=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | seeking | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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